Susan Collins’s Really Dumb Trump Defense Reveals the GOP’s Sickness

https://newrepublic.com/post/182122/susan-collins-dumb-trump-defense-gops-sickness

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  2. The only thing that was more fun yesterday than watching the Trump verdict come in was watching Republicans and assorted right-wingers sputter in outrage.

    Michael Tomasky

  3. You’d think she’s be excited about him finally having to “learn his lesson”

  7. The time for “Susie Squeeze” to retire was at least ten years ago. How utterly pitiful! – The state of Maine needs to pull together. This woman is the height of humiliation.

  8. I remember the whole Kavanaugh nomination thing with her. She’s a lying piece of garbage who would sell out everyone for her party.

  10. Yup. This won’t change the orange faithful. If anything they’ll just quintuple down on their dear leader. But, as pointed out, at least we can remove the ‘allegedly’ tag when discussing Trump’s crimes now.

  11. my doctor moved to NY from maine 2 years ago. i said, “so besides the longer summer, why’d ya move?” she says, “i got tired of people who vote for susan collins.”

  12. Like, what in the actual fuck is wrong with voters in Maine?

  13. I said in 2016 that the Republican party was no longer a political party, but an organized crime ring. And they continue to demonstrate that.

    They have zero policy. They are incapable of governing. They exist to cater to an idiot figurehead so deep in debt to all the worst people on the planet that he’ll almost certainly never get out of it for as long as he lives.

    The only legislation they do have are either tax breaks for corporate raiders, or batshit fucking insane draconian nonsense from the extremist religious fanatics they’ve been catering to.

    At this point this party has nothing. Absolutely nothing. The fact that they have any power or chance in elections is preposterous.

    Any organization, company, whatever, is just a bunch of people working around an objective. Even when the Republican party was evil in the past, they were still funcitonally a *political party*, by which I mean, they had policies they enacted around objectives and focused on holding and wielding power.

    They are simply not that any longer. The fact that they *used to be* is never a guarantee they will *continue to be*, and if you actually just look at their behaviors they really do not and cannot function as a governing body any longer.

    Donald Trump has basically crippled much of their fundraising apparatus. He steals money meant for down-ballot candidates for himself and his own problems, because he’s fundamentally disinterested in anything to do with the party. He only ever joined it parasitically, as an avenue to hoover up power and attention.

    The problem is as they disintegrate in the coming decade, they’re going to fracture into radical splinters, likely cloosely collected around certain geopgraphic regions like Florida and Texas, and those are going to become increasingly violent and behave more like terrorist cells, asserting power over a smaller geographic region and inciting conflicts with a federal goverment they no longer have any hope or possibility of getting power in.

  14. Anybody who thinks it’s even POSSIBLE that a corrupt D.A. could railroad such a high-profile case should be AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY!

    MAGA-heads and Republicans claim innocent, but they tend to support capital punishment.

    If the system could be this wrong about a rich, powerful politician, what chance does the typical capital defendant have? If there’s even a chance that the court system could make a mistake and allow Trumped-up charges to get all the way to conviction, there should be no irrevocable death penalty. Those whining about Trump’s conviction should be the death penalty’s loudest opponents.

    The doublethink is so strong with this crowd.

  15. I find it funny that Republicans are so alarmed by the NY case when their criminal nominee has 3 more indictments against him.

  16. Her mistake is causing us all to “learn our lesson”.

  17. It’s infuriating having her as my Senator. Can she go away, please?

  18. >One has to wonder why Collins went out of her way to make this kind of statement. Maine isn’t exactly MAGA-land. She’s probably in her last term. On a personal level, Trump probably has very little use for her, and she probably doesn’t care much for him. So … why?

    It’s because they still need MAGA AND moderates to vote in November to prevent the biggest landslide win for dems in not only the WH but also downballot.

    Their only hope is to keep MAGAs voting and the only way to do that is to support Trump. If they abandon him, moderates won’t be enough to stop total domination by dems in the congress in November.

    They have no moral compass or intellectual honesty. It’s purely about retaining as much power as possible.

    Cannon is stalling the FL case. The SC is stalling the DC case. They have politicians in GA stalling that case. This is the one case they couldn’t stall, and since it ended in a conviction, they have to attack the system.

  20. Few if any actually believe what they say while defending him. This all stems from fear of violence from their own cult base turning on them. The Frankenstein metaphor has seldom ever been more apt.

  21. I’m starting to think… did Trump’s lawyers intentionally put up a trash defense and not get biased enough jurors hoping he’d get convicted for all this to happen?

  22. Huh. Looks like Susan learned “the lesson.” Kiss up or kiss off. It’s the Trump code.

  24. Susan Colins is just as bad as other Republicans, none of them deserves anyone’s vote.

  25. If you voted for her your mama does tricks in a rescue for well endowed Donkeys.

  26. Susan Collins : Olympia Snowe :: Lindsey Graham : John McCain

    Graham and Collins revealed themselves to have been simply barnacles with only enough talent to have picked decent statesmen and -women with principles to attach themselves to and now that their hosts are gone, they are left directionless, just flopping around, no spine or bones at all in their bodies.

    It’s mind boggling to see someone at the Senator level be like this. When the position is utilized correctly, when a Senator speaks and asks questions the government and corporations thunder and shake.

  27. If Georgia can send two Democrats to D.C., Maine can do it.

  28. Why does she always look like she just smelled a rank fart?

  30. I’m just waiting for Mitt and Mitch to melt in Trump’s hands.

  31. I just told my friend this, but the republican are no more or at least have no power, it’s MAGA now, it’s Trump’s party now and when we defeat them in November we NEED to remember and hold those accountable that stood with him when they should have done otherwise.

  33. She is either a moron or blatantly lying. What do you prefer?

  34. They’re all sell outs. They know it’s a fund raising boom if they cry afoul. So instead of saying what’s right, their greed takes precedence. She’s almost worse than the die hard supporters cause she knows what she’s doing is immoral. Pathetic cowards.

  36. They have to defend him, he is their nominee. Cult logic, party over country.

  37. Absolutely everyone should vote blue for all positions on the ballot and then…

    Run it in their faces! Use every insult they e ever mustered: elections have consequences is going to be my go to.

    What’s your favorite?

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